I get more and more spammers every day... And now they even register, so they must be advanced!

In response to this, I set up a script that automatically bans them based on two factors:Did they register very recently? (They usually register and post their spam right after.)Did they make over 5 new topics? (They usually make 6 topics.)If both conditions are met, the spammer's posts are wiped and he is removed from all user groups. (Which effectively removes all forum permissions, so it is basically a ban.)

EDIT: I do keep a backup of all the deleted spam for 1 week, in case the script catches a false positive. But that is unlikely. :)

To prevent mass registrations spamming the user database full, I had to enable CAPTCHAs today.Though I must pat myself on the back; we went almost three years without requiring users to waste their time on captchas. Yeah! (That is 34 months or 89,253,005 seconds to be super-exact.)